# dree
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɹiː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /dɹi/
* (Ireland) IPA: /ðreː/, /driː/
* (Scotland) IPA: /dri/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
* Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
* Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)

#### Verb

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreeing, simple past and past participle dreed) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)
* (transitive) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate
** 1826, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Literary Gazette, 16th September: The Frozen Ship:Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!
** 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VIII, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree.
* (intransitive) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

##### Derived terms

* adree
* dree one's weird

### Etymology 2

Probably partly:
* derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and
* borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and
** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).
Doublet of dreich.

#### Noun

dree (plural drees)
* (chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.
** 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.

##### Derived terms

* endree

### Etymology 3

From dreich (adjective).

#### Adverb

dree (comparative more dree, superlative most dree)
* (Northeast Midlands, Northern England)
** Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
** Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
* (Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.

### Etymology 4

See dreich.

#### Adjective

dree (comparative dreer, superlative dreest)
* Alternative form of dreich
** 1863, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Engagement”, in Sylvia’s Lovers. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.
** 1863, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Wedding Raiment”, in Sylvia’s Lovers. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 278:But he's lying i' such dree poverty,—and niver a friend to go near him,—niver a person to speak a kind word t' him.
** a. 1931 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “A Hay Hut among the Mountains”, in Warren Roberts, Harry T. Moore, editors, Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished, and Other Prose Works by D. H. Lawrence […], Viking Compass edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1970, →ISBN, part I (Stories and Sketches), page 43:So, after two hours' running downhill, we came out in the level valley at Glashütte. It was raining now, a thick dree rain.

##### Derived terms

* dreely

### References

* 1 2 “dree, v.$^1$, n.$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* ↑ “drīen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ Compare “dree, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2023; “dree, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “dree, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
* ↑ “drī(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “drī(e, adj.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “dreich, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “dreich, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* -dere, Eder, Rede, Reed, de re, deer, dere, rede, reed

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* drei
* dre

### Etymology

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

### Numeral

dree
* three

#### Coordinate terms

| | —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 |
| 0— | null | een | twee/twei | dree/drei | veer | fiev/fief | söß/söss/seß | sæben/söven | acht | negen/nägen |
| 1— | teihn/tein/tien | ölven/elf | twölf | dörteihn | veerteihn | föffteihn | sössteihn | söventeihn | achtteihn | negenteihn |
| 2— | twintig | eenuntwintig | tweeuntwintig | dreeuntwintig | veeruntwintig | fiefuntwintig | sössuntwintig | sövenuntwintig | achtuntwintig | negenuntwintig |
| 3— | dörtig | eenundörtig | tweeundörtig | dreeundörtig | veerundörtig | fiefundörtig | sössundörtig | sövenundörtig | achtundörtig | negenundörtig |
| 4— | veertig | eenunveertig | tweeunveertig | dreeunveertig | veerunveertig | fiefunveertig | sössunveertig | sövenunveertig | achtunveertig | negenunveertig |
| 5— | föfftig | eenunföfftig | tweeunföfftig | dreeunföfftig | veerunföfftig | fiefunföfftig | sössunföfftig | sövenunföfftig | achtunföfftig | negenunföfftig |
| 6— | sösstig | eenunsösstig | tweeunsösstig | dreeunsösstig | veerunsösstig | fiefunsösstig | sössunsösstig | sövenunsösstig | achtunsösstig | negenunsösstig |
| 7— | söventig | eenunsöventig | tweeunsöventig | dreeunsöventig | veerunsöventig | fiefunsöventig | sössunsöventig | sövenunsöventig | achtunsöventig | negenunsöventig |
| 8— | achtig tachentig | eenunachtig eenuntachentig | tweeunachtig tweeuntachentig | dreeunachtig dreeuntachentig | veerunachtig veeruntachentig | fiefunachtig fiefuntachentig | sössunachtig sössuntachentig | sövenunachtig sövenuntachentig | achtunachtig achtuntachentig | negenunachtig negenuntachentig |
| 9— | negentig | eenunnegentig | tweeunnegentig | dreeunnegentig | veerunnegentig | fiefunnegentig | sössunnegentig | sövenunnegentig | achtunnegentig | negenunnegentig |
* 100: hunnert
* 10$^3$: dusend, duusend, eendusend
* 10$^4$: teihndusend
* 10$^6$: Milljon
* 10$^{12}$: Billjon
* 10$^{15}$: Billjard

#### Related terms

* (ordinal numeral) darde (East Frisian), drüdde, drüdd', drütt, drütte (in Dithmarschen)

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

dree
* second-person singular imperative of dreeën

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

### Numeral

dree
* three

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /driː/

### Verb

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreein, simple past dreed, past participle dreed)
* to endure, suffer, put up with, undergo

#### Derived terms

* dree one’s weird

## Yola
### Numeral

dree
* Alternative form of dhree
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Dree deemes.Three times.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33